BDC Launches 2nd Digital Collection

The Library was fortunate to have received the Lucille Hasell Culp Collection in April 2007. For the past 4 years, staff, docents, and a SC SHRAB grant funded photographs archivist have completed various tasks to get us to the point where we could upload a selection of 300 of the best and most significant images to share. We are very fortunate indeed to be able to rely upon the assistance of the Lowcountry Digital Library to make the "Lucille Hasell Culp Collection: A Celebration of Beaufort, South Carolina" a reality.

Grace Cordial has been responsible for the day-to-day operation of the Beaufort District Collection at the Beaufort County Library since 1999. The Beaufort District Collection exists to acquire, preserve, maintain and make accessible a research collection of permanent value which records the history, culture, and environment of our part of the South Carolina lowcountry. Besides the research room, Cordial manages the “Virtual BDC:” the BDC web pages, the Online Obituary Index, two digital collections, a new BDC.BCL Facebook page, and the Connections blog.

Among her duties is to coordinate or present programs about local history, Gullah culture, and our coastal environment, including occasional instructional sessions about how to perform historical and/or genealogical research.